X-Message-Number: 7416
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 00:51:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Robin Helweg-Larsen <>
Subject: Misc. Reply

Merel wrote:
 I
> should also, however, take issue with his description of my thoughts as
> "skepticism", as least in that this may imply I doubt our abilities to
> attain the stars; I don't doubt our ability to do this. I just also
> don't doubt our ability to screw it up royally. I'm not so much
> sceptical as interested in anticipating and preparing against the
> difficulties that lie before us - "cautious" might be a better word.
>  

Coetzee wrote:
> Thus you can get DNA, RNA or chloroform injection. Eat all kinds of 
> health food. You will age slower. The final solution to the aging 
> problem will be a cocktail of chemicals or other means that will do it 
> with out anyone really understand why because so many factors are 
> involved. All you have to do is to improve the environment for "young 
> cells". 

Donaldson wrote:
 But in technology it will mean that we should 
>    someday know how to grow new limbs, and not long after new bodies on
>    heads. (I will add that however repair is done, you will probably be
>    unconscious while it happens, and wake up with a body even better than
>    your previous one).


My miscellaneous reply is a New Year's wish to the three of you, and to
everyone reading this:

	"May you build a ladder to the stars
	"And climb on every rung
	"And may you stay
	"Forever young."	-Bob Dylan

Always optimistic that we will achieve, literally, the dreams of all
the ages,

Robin HL


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